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BELGRADE - Greek military drills held on the Kos island contradict the international law, namely the 1947 Paris peace agreement which confirms the demilitarized status of the Eastern Aegean Islands, a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement obtained by Sputnik on Friday.

A Moscow court has ruled that the events in February 2014 in Ukraine constitute a state coup, reported TASS.

The decision of the Dorogomilovsky court came after a request on behalf of former Ukrainian deputy Vladimir Oleynik.

The participation of "armed nationalist forces" in the change of the regime is an important factor in the decision of the court.

MOSCOW - As a token of support, Russia will give Serbia six MiG-29 planes as a gift, and the three stages of upgrading them will cost us 180-230 mln euros, PM Aleksandar Vucic said after a meeting with Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu Wednesday, Sputnik reported.

If you calculate the costs of buying such planes, you will see they would cost us around 600 mln euros, he said.

Shortly after a breaking story on the Russian news site Sputnik on Dec. 21 about the al-Nusra Front's claiming of responsibility for the assassination of Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Ankara, on Dec 19, it was understood that the claim was fake.

MOSCOW - As a token of support, Russia will give Serbia six MiG-29 planes as a gift, and the first stage of upgrading them will cost us 180-230 mln euros, PM Aleksandar Vucic said after a meeting with Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu Wednesday, Sputnik reported.

If you calculate the costs of buying such planes, you will see they would cost us around 600 mln euros, he said.

BELGRADE - The European Parliament voted in favor of a resolution on countering Russian media outlets, such as the Sputnik news agency and the RT broadcaster. As many as 304 parliamentarians voted in favor the document, 179 voted against and 208 abstained.

As many as 691 officials took part in the vote, meaning less than half supported the resolution.

The foreign ministers of the United States and Russia, the authors of a stillborn cease-fire in Syria, held discussions by phone for the fourth consecutive day on Oct. 1 regarding the bombing campaign in Aleppo that has hit hospitals and water supplies. 

57,458 migrants and refugees "trapped in Greece amid border closures by nearby Balkan states" have been registered in Greece, Sputnik has reported.

The agency quoted Greece's Central Coordinating Body for the Management of Migration, which released the data in a statement.

The lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly, on Thursday voted in favor of a resolution calling for lifting of anti-Russian sanctions.

The resolution proposed by the opposition calls on the French government to protest extension of EU sanctions against Moscow, Sputnik reported.

Turkey's Presidency of Telecommunication and Communication (T?B) has blocked access to Russia's state news agency website Sputnik, without issuing prior notification, citing "legal consideration" of a law regarding crimes committed through online broadcasts.